Marcela Rodríguez Acosta

Marcela Rodríguez Acosta (born February 21, 1955) is a Spanish trans woman who was repressed by Francoism and later also by the transition and the subsequent democracy.

Life and career Marcela was born on February 21, 1955, in the municipality of Tazacorte, in La Palma,

In 1967, when she was only 12 years old, she dropped out of school and began working in a car wash. In her adolescence, unable to find work due to her gender identity, because trans women could not access employment for being considered "faggots", she began working as a pusher selling hashish, a privileged situation compared to her companions, who were forced to resort to prostitution.

She married her then-boyfriend in 2005, but had to divorce years later to access financial aid, agreeing to and still maintaining her romantic relationship with him.